Article: Western Pacific.(COUNCIL UPDATES: News from the regional management councils)

President Bush in early January designated three new areas in the Pacific as Marine National Monuments. They represent the largest areas of ocean or ocean seabed set aside as marine protected areas in the world.

The first is the Marianas Marine National Monument; one of the main components will be the Marianas Trench, which contains the deepest places on earth and at its deepest is deeper than Mount Everest is high. The other major feature of the ...

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